WaveMan

That did it! I did the add/remove programs for php then selected "Change" - all I had to do was add gd to the install! Thanks man! Holy crap - you have no idea how bad this was stressin' me out!

I don't know how to set it up any other way...

no GD related errors under "system events".... I don't recall but I'm sure I just used the win32 installer.... It was already in the folder...

I commented out mysqli.dll and it stopped showing up in phpinfo...

Also: extension_dir = "C:/PHP/ext"

Loaded Configuration File C:\PHP\php.ini extension=php_gd2.dll

A) phpinfo does not show any GD extension B) nothing in the event log C) I know it's not working - see A

A. Yes, it's in C:\php\php.ini B: Yes, even have rebooted the server..

I have searched and tried every piece of advice I can find to get freakin' GD Libraries working on my server and nothing works! I have the gd2 dll file in the ext directory and also have it uncommented out in php.ini and the path in php.ini points to the right directory... I'm using php 5.2.3 Does anyone here have experience with this stuff? Thank you!